Thesis: The executive branch is becoming too powerful.
Antithesis: If that ever happened, the white-collar desk jockeys at the IRS would rise in revolt against authoritarianism.
Synthesis: Democracies cannot be authoritarian as long as they pass the 
test.
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It's wild how "American laws are literally magical binding principles carved into the ontology of existence" is a terrifyingly mainstream position. It's like the moderate version of sovereign citizen brain.
The american constitution cannot be modified because it’s a god given set of rules and mandates. Whereas other countries’ constitutions simply give permissions to citizens
I find it interesting how western academics will justifiably point out similarities between political movements and religions without ever considering that maybe religions were essentially how politics were done in the past
It’s impossible to have an authoritarian government because the two parties never agree on anything, except when it’s to give more authoritarian powers to the security state
That made me almost spit my coffee out. Using The Patriot Act as an example. Perhaps the most regressive and invasive piece broad piece of legislation ever. Legislation that was illegal and unconstitutional, but sailed through anyway. And not only that, but even in the immediate shadow of 9/11, it did have dissenters and opponents like Patrick Leahy... and then anthrax letters started being sent to them specifically.
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The system works!
Liberals think dictators micromanage every part of a country like a hardcore paradox game
What great man theory does to a liberal.
They don't have brainworms, they just have one giant worm that has hollowed out their entire body from top to bottom and is wearing it like a suit.
Seeing the way liberals talk about places they do consider to be dictatorships, be it Russia, DPRK, China, you'll realize the answer is emphatically yes.
Ummm, have you ever read The Constitution? It says you can't do that
I'm not even American and I know your system better than you.
Wild how Reddit turns people into this, unless they're Canadian then they were already like thatYeah, they're Canadian lmao, of course they are
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Weird twist, I thought they were just a regular civility lib, you'd think a fascist would understand the concept of ”a bunch of people with guns take over and your bureaucracy is useless”.
My great grand pappy said this about germany back in the 20s
Eh, you just need to write a law that says "this is dictatorship now" and have a Supreme Court that will say "Yup this is legal".
Job done.
All you really need is capture of the legislator and the court. The court can make up whatever it wants.
Oh and the president can also just assassinate everyone that opposes him now and they already ruled that it's totally legal no matter who he's doing that to. So like, would you oppose the president? All he's gotta do is make a few people disappear and the rest will suddenly do whatever he wants. Enough fear of being next to die and they'd all fall in line behind the new dictator.
Shout outs to the conspirators who murdered Julius Caesar and then shrugged and dismantled their Republic anyway
It is absolutely impossible for the Weimar Republic to become a dictatorship.
The parties agree on bills all the time, this guy only knows about the most obviously egregious one
America won't become a dictatorship because it literally doesn't have it's shitntogerher enough to do anything effectively now
The US can't become a dictatorship because USicans would only ever acknowledge that it's become a dictatorship if the president cancelled elections, and any would-be dictators know this and would choose any of the other dozens of ways to take control.
Many people are saying it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole
(Not that it would take any "loophole", obviously)
Of course, when he tried to explain it, another man told him to shut the hell up.
That man's name?
Albert Einstein.
That’s not even a loophole. The Constitution is purposefully amendable (as any constitution should be), which inherently means the system of governance is amendable (again as any constitution should be).
